June 23, 2010
Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck@nasa.gov
James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-094
NASA ASTRONAUT T.J. CREAMER AVAILABLE FOR TV INTERVIEWS ON CHALLENGES OF LIVING AND WORKING ABOARD THE SPACE STATION
HOUSTON -- After more than five months living aboard the International
Space Station, NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer will be available for
satellite interviews from Houston between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. CDT on
Wednesday, June 30.
To arrange an interview, news media should contact producer Derek
Sollosi at 281-792-7515, or by e-mail to derek.sollosi-1@nasa.gov, by
5 p.m. Monday, June 28. B-roll of Creamer’s flight will air on NASA
TV from 5:30 a.m. to 6 a.m. June 30.
Born in Ft. Huachuca, Ariz., Creamer considers Upper Marlboro, Md.,
his hometown. He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Loyola
College in Baltimore and a master’s degree in physics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Creamer has logged 163 days in
space.
Creamer launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Dec. 20, 2009, from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz docked with the space
station two days later, and Creamer joined the Expedition 22 crew.
For the next 161 days, he lived and worked aboard the space station
as a flight engineer and NASA science officer on Expeditions 22 and
23. He and his crew members supported three space shuttle missions
that delivered the U.S. Tranquility module and its cupola, put the
finishing touches on U.S. laboratory research facilities, and
attached the Russian Rassvet laboratory and storage module. The
Expedition 23 crew returned to Earth on June 1, 2010, with a landing
in central Kazakhstan.
The NASA Television Live Interview Media Outlet channel will be used
for the interviews. The channel is a digital satellite C-band
downlink by uplink provider Americom. It is on satellite AMC 3,
transponder 9C, located at 87 degrees west, downlink frequency 3865.5
Mhz based on a standard C-band, horizontal downlink polarity. FEC is
3/4, data rate is 6.0 Mbps, symbol rate is 4.3404 Msps, transmission
DVB-S, 4:2:0.
The interviews also will be broadcast live on NASA Television. For
streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For complete biographical information about Creamer, visit:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/creamer.html
For more information about the International Space Station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
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